I'm sure it's entirely coincidental that both choices are social wedge issues that do nothing to discomfit her wealthy supporters. "Immigration reform" will bring them more workers willing to work for peanuts, and tamp down growing labor restlessness. Gun control is a nice campaign slogan, but nothing will happen around it so she can safely drop it.

Climate change? Living wage? Domestic jobs? Income inequality? Crickets from Hillary.

so they know they will go nowhere but cause enough trouble so as to hide the real objectives

And as soon as she speaks to her corporate masters and Third way assholes, Immigration Reform will probably be thrown under the bus also.

first Hundred Days big push.... since she'll have such a "mandate" from The People. /facepalm

Boy, this is such utter hogwash kabuki. But straight outta the UniParty (as a friend of mine calls them) Playbook.

Guns? well she has so much speech text already finetuned on that from her so highly successful primary against Bernie, so why let all that good copy go to waste. She can tie it to her bogus Stands For Woman and Children theme. Immigration? Sure thats a winner.

btw ... this is also Bernie's fault:

An April Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that Mrs. Clinton’s favorability rating among independents had dropped 15 percentage points in the last four months alone. That poll found that 20% of independents viewed Mrs. Clinton positively, compared with 62% who viewed her negatively—a gap of 42 percentage points. In January, that same poll found her with a positive rating of 35% and a negative rating of 54%—a gap of fewer than 20 percentage points.

And Im sure this is too:

As Climate Disruption Advances, UN Warns: "The Future Is Happening Now"
Each month as I write these dispatches, I shake my head in disbelief at the rapidity at which anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) is occurring. It's as though each month I think, "It can't possibly keep happening at this incredible pace."

But it does.

By late April, the Mauna Loa Observatory, which monitors atmospheric carbon dioxide, recorded an incredible daily reading: 409.3 parts per million. That is a range of atmospheric carbon dioxide content that this planet has not seen for the last 15 million years, and 2016 is poised to see these levels only continue to increase.

{snipping a ton of more data}

Also on the denial front, the group Media Matters cataloged the questions asked during both the Republican and Democratic presidential debates, and found that of the 1,477 questions asked by the various networks to the candidates, only 22 of them (approximately 1.5 percent) were about ACD. Of all the networks that hosted debates, the one that asked the most ACD-related questions was the Spanish-language network (Univision, which is US-based).

Back to reality, recent polling shows that the vast majority of Americans now believe that ACD is real and ongoing, and that the US government needs to do something about it.

Sigh. This approach from her for the General just makes us stronger.

Now that Trump has it locked up, Hillary will never be allowed to run in the GE. My guess as to the likely scenario is the following: Hillary is indicted by the Justice department, or if not, a deal is reached similar to Petraeus where she admits to wrongdoing and loses her security clearance. Can't very well have a President who is prohibited from having a security clearance. It will all be taken care of in some kind of deal. We shall see.

all those attacks on Sanders about the guns....

Immigration, as many have noted, simply means increasing H1B visas for her and hers.

And that privatization of SS, that will be coming down the pike for damned sure, hubby failed at that one due to his sexual appetites and Repugnant impeachment hearings, but he was close to getting it done. He and the Newtie boy were buddies in those quiet dark rooms after all on that hot mess, impeachment nonsense aside.

But that damned impeachment got the better of ALL of them, and Billy-Bob couldn't do it. It will be perhaps Hillary's final "victory" over Bill, eh? To get done what he could not, and be the big heroine of the moneyed classes, well that would be her final "win" would it not, after sticking around with his sorry philandering ass? We all knew why she stuck with him, and this would be it in my humble opinion.

will paint the Oval Office? I hear he is fond of gold.

With all of her conflicting messages on both topics, he will make mince meat out of her. There are a number of big hunting states coming up that won't appreciate an attack on guns. As for immigration, just start posting everywhere and anywhere but particularly NM and CA about Honduras and the murdered children which she said so callously to send back as a message.

Hopefully, though, she will jump on those topics immediately; they should sink her in the remaining states and give Sanders the delegates he needs. However, another thought occurs to me...independents, thanks to the press, may think Sanders is out and vote to solidify Trump instead.

I didn’t think anyone had it in them anymore. Certainly not Donald Trump.

It’s actually Democrats’ job, but they’ve been abdicating that responsibility ever since the Pelosi-led House took investigation of the Bush administration off the table in 2007.

(edited to add that this was supposed to be a reply to Blueside and Twain Disciple, above)

It's true until she says she was misquoted or misunderstood. Then she's being demonized for things she didn't say even if she said them.

It was probably out of both sides of her mouth. Whatever she says now isn't what she has to say or do later anyway. She can just convince herself she was misquoted and move on.

That's her kind of integrity - you know, the kind where you don't concern yourself with it.

I remember that time she was in Bosnia - so brave…it's amazing she made it out of there alive with all that sniper fire.

It will make 1994 or 2010 look like photo finishes. Her favorability is already underwater and she wants to lead with those. But hey, at least Michael Bloomberg will be happy. The next cocktail party he throws for Hillary is going to be swanky.

If these are her top two presidential priorities, she's going to be spending a lot of time twiddling her thumbs in the Oval Office,................ whirling around in the Big Chair, and snapping her fingers for more gum from Huma.

Typically bland and out of touch of her.

VP??? Tim Kaine!!!!!

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/tim-kaine-vice-president-hillary-...

Focus progressives attention on un-winable things and then "save" social security and negotiate more job creating "trade" agreements.

becomes President of the United States, Secretary Clinton will pull in more for her little money laundering operation, and will lose nothing.

The Clinton Family are in this for the long haul. They want to establish an empire: they are the mouthpieces for industrial interests, the grease that makes the creaky old works of democracy continue to mint cash for the oligarchs.

Again, this adapted quotation:

The election is being waged for the division of the masses and the robbery of the 99%; thieves have fallen out–and to refer to the defeats at a given moment of one of the thieves in order to identify the interests of all thieves with the interests of the nation is an unconscionable bourgeois lie.

One hundred useless and irredeemable points to anyone who identifies the source.

Peace and love be with you, reader.

Molly Ivins.

Exxon Mobile is being sued by 36 Attorneys General for engaging in research SUBSTANTIATING fossil fuel induced Climate Change back in the 1970's and then fometting a massive misinformation campaign to prevent public knowledge or action. Which means that every single administration since that time KNEW about this, and colluded in insuring that we were paralyzed in protecting ourselves: it is now stark, obvious, and advanced.

Consider that the CLINTONS got: the Telecommunications act; insuring monopoly ownership of the media; Repealed Glass Steagal insuring a massive transfer of U.S. and international wealth into the hands of a very few players globally. Gutted the U.S. economy; implemented the first round of corporate tribunals under NAFTA; got Draconian poor laws in place, and a massive prison industrial complex with human quotas, free labor, and publicly traded as a "stock". Then she has aided and abetted a false war with massive destruction to human life, genocide, and huge profits- business opportunity; again for private wealth. She has doubled down on these policies everywhere. Consider too, that there is are no ethical oversight or accountability for her communications and money passed to her through a dubious foundation, while both she and her former president get every security brief over decades. She has sold fracking all over the world: it destroys drinking water. There are refugees from fracking communities whose children and animals are suffering with God knows what kind of exposure to known carcinogens, poisons, etc. IN THEIR OWN HOMES. Flint was a photo op: she cares NOTHING about public health, safety or human rights.

Do you really think there is any intention of addressing Climate Change in ANY meaningful way? or are they going to let "nature take its course" insuring genocide and shortened life for an every increasing number of expendable humans while they amass wealth for the ultimate game of survivor. She will be the one to insure that only the right folks can be armed, and our capacity to defend our lives will be destroyed, just as property rights have been eroded; just as equal representation under the law is now a joke. I am not in favor of disturbed folks getting machine guns: but I can anticipate that our government is turning against us to the point where our lives and our children's lives and ability to survive are under assault.